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NASA Launches Moonbase Alpha
Several readers have sent word that today NASA launched Moonbase Alpha, an online game with single- and multi-player capability that "allows participants to step into the role of an exploration team member in a futuristic 3-D lunar settlement." The game is available now through Steam for free. Moonbase Alpha was built as a precursor to an upcoming NASA MMO called Astronaut: Moon, Mars & Beyond, and they hope it will be "a proof of concept to show how NASA content can be combined with a cutting-edge game engine to inspire, engage and educate students about agency technologies, job opportunities and the future of space exploration."
...before Unka Obama told the Space Kidz he wouldn't pay for their trip to Teh Moon.
You know, when he was still lying about it before the election, so gullible nerds would support him.
-=Maggie Leber=-
My level 19 Rocketeer had fourteen Pristine Moonrock's, I had the fifteenth IN SIGHT, when a level 43 Cosmonaut ganked me and looted everything off my corpse.
Did they loot all of his unnecessary apostrophes and run-on sentences too?
Really pointless for anything American to be thinking of space travel. After the final shuttle missions this year, we will never get into space again. Our NASA administrator has been given the main task of making the muslims happy, and the president has cut the funding for people in space. Meanwhile, the freakin' economy is still collapsing, slowly, and you'll never get congress to institute the cure - the Fair Tax would get us out of this mess overnight.